03-21-2011
Hi vgersh99 and all,
Thank you for your help. The solution you gave works well, just a small problem I am not able to solve and have tried to do this by mysellf as a way to learn more how to use awk. but over a week now I can solve this. The problem is the solution above fails if the number just before or just before the negative numbers is 0.00. see the data
Here the data and see what happens
Quote:
2.91 -1.19 1.34 78.00 2.00
3.09 -1.21 1.33 91.00 2.00
3.28 -1.03 1.41 87.00 2.00
3.47 -0.78 1.48 86.00 2.00
3.66 -0.47 1.51 86.00 2.00
3.84 0.00 1.42 88.00 2.00
4.03 0.47 1.15 85.00 2.00
4.22 0.93 0.45 87.00 2.00
4.41 1.00 0.00 87.00 1.00
4.59 1.00 0.00 87.00 1.00
4.78 1.00 0.00 87.00 1.00
4.97 1.00 0.00 84.00 1.00
5.16 1.00 0.00 88.00 1.00
5.34 1.00 0.00 86.00 1.00
8.53 1.00 0.00 86.00 1.00
8.72 1.00 0.00 87.00 1.00
8.91 1.00 0.00 78.00 1.00
9.09 1.00 0.00 91.00 1.00
9.28 1.00 0.00 87.00 1.00
9.47 1.00 0.00 86.00 1.00
9.66 1.00 0.00 86.00 1.00
9.84 1.00 0.00 88.00 1.00
10.03 0.00 1.09 85.00 2.00
10.22 -0.86 1.46 87.00 2.00
10.41 -1.86 0.63 87.00 2.00
10.59 -1.76 0.82 87.00 2.00
10.78 -0.83 1.47 87.00 2.00
10.97 0.07 1.40 84.00 2.00
11.16 0.80 0.76 88.00 2.00
11.34 1.00 0.00 86.00 1.00
See how this fails to give the correct result as when the data is as given in my initial post.
I have been thinking a solution would be to use some if statement but I have not managed to find a way to use an iff statement in this case.
I sincerely appreciate you assistance.
Thank you
Malandisa
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